Cascading effects of a plant community shifts across ecosystem boundaries
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation is organized around the effects and mechanisms of a plant community shift, from a mixed species forest to largely monodominant stands of coconut palm (Cocos nucifera), in the Line Island chain in the Central Pacific Ocean. The cause and effects of this plant community shift transgress both ecosystem and conceptual boundaries. This dissertation thus likewise moves across multiple systems and topics notably including: ecosystem connectivity, indirect effects of introduced species, and resource partitioning.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Young, Hillary S |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Biological Sciences |
| Primary advisor | Dirzo, Rodolfo |
| Thesis advisor | Dirzo, Rodolfo |
| Thesis advisor | Hadly, Elizabeth Anne, 1958- |
| Thesis advisor | Micheli, Fiorenza |
| Thesis advisor | Vitousek, Peter Morrison |
| Advisor | Hadly, Elizabeth Anne, 1958- |
| Advisor | Micheli, Fiorenza |
| Advisor | Vitousek, Peter Morrison |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Hillary Suzanne Young. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Biological Sciences. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 2010. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2010 by Hillary Suzanne Young
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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